The Business Times, 3 November 2003

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MFFA (P>o24/03/2003 init; np com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 2003 86*
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  • 836 1  -  Uptrend is expected to continue, but growth could be volatile: analysts By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The latest corporate results are yet another confirmation that the economy probably bottomed out in the first half of this year. After a difficult period
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  • 61 1 Week Change ST1 1723.71 -915 KLSECOMP 817.12 +1169 NIKKEI 225 *****.59_+223.89 HANG SENG *****.10 +***** SET INDEX 639.45 +3010 JAKARTA (X)MP jBUI 9.02 MANILA COMf* 1399.07 +35.67 TAIPEI WP1 6045.12 +126.98 SHM LCOMP ***** +34.19 SHENZHEN B 263.47 +11.07 AI'STALLORD .*****0 +16.20 DOW JONES 9801.12 +218.66 NASDAQ *****1 +66.62
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  • 78 1 FOREX RATES US* SS IS$ (S$ per l'S$) 1.738 £(1'S$/S$ per Si) 1693 1941 ElTtOfTSS/SS/E). 1.162 1019 YEN 109.0 6170 RM 3.800 1187 HK$ 7.764 4.469 BAHT 3993 2198 RIP1AH 8.494 4.888 RENMINBI 8198 4.776 INDIAN RUPEE 4532 26.08 AS 1.421 0.818 NZS 1.637 0.942 i nmm mates SINGAPORE*
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  • 634 1  -  Analysts say 7.2% GDP rise unlikely to be sustained From Andrew Marks in New York AT the outset of last week, Wall Street was hoping for some big non-earnings news to snap investors out of the funk that had caused the US
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  • 799 1  -  Family wealth gevernance may help in preservation By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] What's worse than high taxes or a vicious bear market? For the "seriously wealthy" it is the gnawing worry that successive generations may fritter away their wealth. The proverb that wealth is
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    • 528 2  -  Spend-rate of up to 3% annually ideal: JPMorgan Chase By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] How do the seriously wealthy stay wealthy? They do not invest on leverage. Tax planning is key. And the income they draw from their assets should not exceed 3 per cent
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    • 884 2  -  HOCK lock siew Unlike DBS, it has more room for manoeuvre in grabbing lucrative deals quak hiang whai MUCH has been said and written about the supposedly regional banking ambitions of Temasek Holdings after the Singapore holding company started making bids for banks in Indonesia.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 1222 4  -  People's Food, Dairy Farm top return on equity list with over 40% By Joyce Koh AMID the recent tough economic conditions, just 20 companies in the "billiondollar club" have managed a return on equity (ROE) of more than 10 per cent. Compare
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    • 1083 6  -  INSIDE MARKETS ROBERT HALILI looks at the top sellers last week which also saw one notable buyer ROBERT HALILI SELLERS dominated trading for the eighth straight week with 26 firms recording 62 disposals worth $20 million in the last week of October versus
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    • 569 6  -  Silver Bridge doing reverse takeover of company By Loh Hui Yin POOR prospects in Singapore's construction industry have prompted marble and granite specialist TSM Resources to diversify into a totally different business China's dairy industry. "Even in the current difficult times, we still make
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 826 8  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE stock market is a fertile place for sayings and maxims. "Climbing a wall of worry" is one, "buy in anticipation, sell on announcement" is another. Both are applicable to the current state of the market. For the
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    • 620 8 AFP [HONG KONG] Japan's yen hit a near three-year high against the greenback and the Australian dollar reached a six-year peak in a week of varying fortunes for currencies in the Asia-Pacif-ic region. Japanese yen: The yen eased after rallying to a 35-month
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    • 1029 9  -  BT portfolio STOCKS teh hooi ling jRfEVE had some extreme movements in our portfolios last week. TWi one-year top losers rocketed skyward with gains of 9.1 per cent despite the general we*k market. The superstar In the portfolio last week PDC Corp which surged 119
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    • 294 9  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan HAVING gained some 40 per cent from its March lows, the Singapore market is now trading at valuations which assume at least 20 to 30 per cent earnings growth next year, according to analysts. The question now is whether
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 761 12  -  Developments in Katong, Holland and Braddell worth $400m op for grate By Kalpana Rashiwala PROPERTY agents continue to release collective sale sites oil the market in a bid to net developers before their interest in landbanking wanes again. The three latest freehold
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    • 380 12  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE can survive the current downturn because it has the system and people who can react promptly in times of crises. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said this yesterday as he related how Singapore Airlines and emergen cy
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    • 352 12  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY By Chen Huifen CONSUMER spending over the next three months is expected to remain weak, bogged down by Singaporeans' many financial worries, according to a report by Saffron Hill Research. In a study tracking Singapore's consumer confidence in September, the research
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    • 1282 12 ASL MARINE HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting of the Company will be held at 19 Pandan Road, Singapore *****1 on Thursday, 20 November 2003 at 10.00 a.m. for the following purposes: OrdtayßnllM 1
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    • 991 12 NOTICES Radiance Electronics Limited (Incorporated In tke Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTia IS HEREBY GIVEN that the first Annual General Meeting vaned by the Company in general meeting, such of Radiance Bectromcs Limited will be hald at 53 UN Read 1. authority shad continue m farce
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 643 14  -  BT comment MALAYSIA diana oon abdullah LAST week Malaysia bade farewell to Mahathir Mohamad as he stepped down as the country's fourth prime minister. Attending his last parliamentary sitting as prime minister on Thursday, Dr Mahathir said he was happy that his last appearance
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    • 214 14 MANCHESTER, England A deal could reap huge returns for club and its sponsors AFP MANCHESTER United are reportedly preparing a mil-lion-pound bid for Chinese teenager Dong Fangzhou in a move that would delight the club's corporate backers. The 18-year-old striker, who plays
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    • 176 14 BEIJING Regulators in 14 areas can approve up to US$3m Bloomberg CHINA relaxed controls on investment abroad by local companies, a move aimed at easing pressure on the government to revalue the yuan, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said. Regulators in 14 provinces
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    • 122 14 HONG KONG Reuters CHINA plans to allow foreign banks to raise their holdings in Chinese banks to 24 per cent from an unofficial cap on individual shareholdings of 15 per cent, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported on Saturday.
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      • 169 14 AFP [KEPALA BATAS] Malaysia's newly-installed Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi signalled at the weekend that elections could be called early as he seeks to win his own mandate. He took over on Friday from Mahathir Mohamad simply because he was the chosen successor and next most
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      • 108 14 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT HM Sampoerna, Indonesia's No 2 cigarette maker, earned 30 per cent less in Q3 than in the same period a year ago, hurt by rising costs and the sale of a subsidiary. In the period ended Sept 30, it earned 414.7 billion
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      • 108 14 Reuters [BEIJING) China's big four state banks have cut their non-performing loan ratios by 448 percentage points in the first nine months of this year, the Financial News reported on Saturday. The average non-performing loan ratio of the banks —Industrial and Commercial Bank of
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    • 534 15  -  Asean, China, Brazil and Gulf states all within India's ETA sights From Ajoy Sen in New Delhi AFTER signing a Free Trade Agreement with Thailand last month, India has hastened efforts to sign more tariff-free pacts with other Asean nations
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    • 371 15 WASHINGTON Reuters A SWIFT rise in the value of China's currency probably would not provide US manufacturers with the help that they expect and could backfire on the US, a top economist said on Friday. The testimony before the House of
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    • 423 15 BANGALORE, India AFP. AP HIT by a wave of IT outsourcing, European and Asian trade missions vied with one another at a technology fair here yesterday to lure Indian firms to open offices in their countries to arrest the flight of jobs.
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    • 1473 16 WING TAI HOLDINGS LIMITED J (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 39th Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the HuHet Room, Level 4, Raffles City Convention Centre, Swissotel The Stamford, 2 Stamford Road, Singapore *****2
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  • WORLD news
    • 189 16 TOKYO Bloomberg SONY Corp. the world's second-biggest con-sumer-electronics maker, will create a holding company by the fiscal year starting April 1,2006, to reorganise its business structure, the Asahi newspaper reported without citing anyone. The holding company will be in charge
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    • 486 16 LONDON Reuters, AFP THE storm surrounding the Yukos oil company has given portfolio investors in Russia the jitters, but companies making real goods or extracting raw materials have few alternatives to a foothold in the world's largest country. From oil majors to metals
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    • 506 16  -  South Africa also joining competition for outsourcing work From Neil Behrman in London EASTERN Europe has become one of the fastestgrowing outsourcing locations for call centres and back offices, according to Datamonitor, which analyses global market trends. South Africa is also emerging as
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    • 318 16 LONDON AFP THE Bank of England is expected to become the world's first major central bank to raise interest rates during the current cycle this week as a global economic recovery gathers pace, but analysts say others may be in no hurry to follow
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    • 605 16 Ask for your complimentary copy of The Business Times on weekdays at any F&B outlet at Far East Square, courtesy of DBS (while stocks last). Far East Square has more than 35 food and entertainment outlets, including those featured here. THERE'S a little bit of Ginza
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    • 463 17 WALL STREET SHAKE UP Probe widens; firms asked to tarn over organisation, trading data, e-mail Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed New York Stock Exchange marketmaking firms to turn over trading records, organisational charts and e-mail dating to the beginning of 2000, widening
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    • 389 17 WASHINGTON It will propose trading restrictions by end of this month Bloomberg THE US Securities and Exchange Commission will propose restrictions on trading in the US$7 trillion mutual fund industry by the end of this month and consider new rules on funds' governance
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    • 329 17 NEW YORK Gitigroup, Merrill, Goldman, and 7 others involved Bloomberg A US judge approved a US$l.4 billion settlement of lawsuits accusing Citigroup Jtnc, Merrill Lynch Co, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, and seven other investment banks of misleading investors with biased stock research. H The firms
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    • 291 17 LONDON AP ABOUT a thousand ground staff at Heathrow Airport began a two-day strike yesterday, threatening to cause disruptions to flights of up to 20 airlines. Baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by Swissport UK and Swissport Cargo walked out at 4.30 am. Swissport said
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 155 17 AP [WASHINGTON] President George W Bush Is losing public support for his war and economic policies. This is according to a new poll which, for the first time, shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of Iraq. A dim majority, 51
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      • 123 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Bank of Scotland Group Pic, the United Kingdom's second-largest bank by assets, declined to comment on a newspaper report it may buy Sovereign Bancorp Inc of Philadelphia for about US$6 billion. Larry Fish, the chairman of Citizens Financial Group Inc, Royal
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      • 103 17 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's exports hit an all-time record of U5519.04 billion in October, surpassing the past record of U5517.16 billion set in the previous month, the country's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said on Saturday. The customs-cleared exports in October was up
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    • 445 17 AFP, Reuters [IRAQ] US military command confirmed 15 soldiers were killed and 21 injured when a US military helicopter was downed outside the flashpoint town of Fallujah yesterday, in the deadliest attack on US forces in Iraq in the six months since
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    • 340 20 Overall including the men, Harry Potter's creator was the fifth-highest earner AFP [LONDON] Harry Potter author JK Rowling was the highest female earner in Britain during the year to September, earning eight times more than Queen Elizabeth 11, according to a survey in
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  • 787 18 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] Base metals prices bolted higher on world markets last week after sizzling US growth figures raised hopes of increased demand for raw materials. Gold prices brushed recent seven-year highs before retreating on a spike in the value
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    • 151 21 OKIBR KEVIN WHEATLAND Managing Partner of Service Pulse International, Sweden TlufintEanftuwiMiurtftlupratiguiuAFSMlGttrgtOHtrwHAwiriftrtaaudutgctMniutuKslttktsimcesiadMXrjlM]) ait tmmtu 2003 TjjjMg 111 Mi VtWSlHyre'lMM-5.10 p*Ss«Wietl Introduction Initial Customer Orientation Concepts And Their Implication Definitions Background research The Customer's Perspective Issues to understand Mindsets The Affect Of Human Behaviour On Service Perception Roles and role conflict Transactional
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  • BizIT
    • 767 21  -  IT comment INFOTECH Is this the beginning of the end for PDAs? Not quite. There's still some hope left raju chellam M T last week's Global Entrepolis Singapore mega-event, roughly one in every four delegates carried a personal digital assistant (PDA) of some M sort. To
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    • 616 21  -  Large Indian software companies already have the advantages that S'pore offers By Amit Roy Choudhury rLhi neaas one ot maia s top software firms, wooed as a partner regionally and worldwide. But B Ramalinga Raju, chairman, Satyam Computer Services, has
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    • 191 21 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Worldwide shipments of silicon wafers, the primary material used to produce semiconductors, rose 3 per cent in the third quarter, an industry group said. Shipments rose less than expected because of fewer corporate investments in computers and telecommunications infrastructure, said
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        51 21 NEC Solutions Asia-Pacific hat introduced its highestperformance lightweight projector to date, theLTl7O. Weighing 1.77 kg, the new projector features a bright 1,500 ANSI lumens and XGA-native resolution. The NEC LTI7O has a resilient casing and a rubberised grip. The projector is available and coet« $5,209. For more details, visit
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      • 99 21 HEWLETT-PACKARD has introduced five new digital cameras, the HP Photo Smart 945,935,735,635 and 435. The cameras are priced from $379 to $098. Consumers have the option to choose from a point and shoot camera like the 435 to the manua] controls and high zoom power
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      • 83 21  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury C ASK) has introduced a new BaciUm wxra pw<Ulai«iwe iHgWwlcamerB, thaBC-ZA wiiha4 megapUel reeohitioaaoi a 2a optical *>m Ttoc EXZ* measarra a oocnpact 87 mm wkV, £7 mm fxtgfc and 231 mm tfekk. New audio aoapehot end wstoa recorder cqatfOtiai have been added «nd
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    • 869 22  -  BT exclusive Revenues for the region, including Japan, hit US$173 million, up 10% compared to the same quarter last year, reports Tang Weng Fai Tang Weng Fai STORAGE giant EMC Corp has seen another healthy third quarter in the Asia-Pa-cific, buoyed by
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    • 436 22 "Wakes'held across the US to swap stories about the e3000's durability Bloomberg [PRINCETON] HewlettPackard Co, the world's sec ond-largest computer maker, quit selling, at the end of last month, its e3OOO line of server computers after 31 years, spurring some customers to hold
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    • 539 22  -  Express based on IBM's open standards-based technology By Amit Roy Choudhury IBM has launched IBM Express, a portfolio of offerings and programmes designed and priced specifically for small and medium businesses. The new business strategy for SMBs is based on IBM's open standards-based
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      • 62 22 SOFTWARE AG. Europe's leading system software providers and pioneer in Extensible Markup Language (XML), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOLT) with Nanyang Polytechnic to set up The XML Centre of Competency (XML CoC). The partnership will involve Software AG's sponsorship ofTamino XML Server and EntireX Integration Server
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      • 72 22 CRIMSONLOGIC, an IT solutions provider, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) to transform its document submission procedures to an Internet-based system, powered by Crimson Logic technology. Under the MOU. CrlmsanLogic will develop and Implement Internet-based applications and solutions to
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      • 49 22 ITMA's 9th IT Best Practices Seminar S003 focuses on enhancing the value of IT. It is jointly organlaed by the Information Technology Management Association (ITMA) and National Compute Systems (NCS) on Nov 14,9am-5pm. Marriott HoteL For details on the seminar, visit www.Uma.orgjg or www.na.com.sg.
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    • 290 23 Contributed by Simpson, Sptnce Young IT is no surprise that the prices for dry bulk tonnage have continued to rise with a couple of 1995 built panamax bulkers reported sold. The firm prices are filtering down to the older tonnage with a number of 1980s-built ships reported sold.
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    • 349 23 27% of passengers contracted contagions stomach virus AFP [LONDON] A cruise ship on which up to 500 British passengers have been struck down with a highly contagious stomach virus is expected to dock in Gibraltar today, a senior official from the
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    • 399 23 13 ships, contaminated with asbestos, toxic materials are due to be broken up Reuters [LONDON] A controversial plan to dismantle polluted US ships in Britain was thrown into confusion on Friday after Britain's Environment Agency withdrew permission for them to dock. The
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    • 312 23 Move to protect region's fleet, prevent companies from relocating Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] The European Union eased state-aid rules for shipping to prevent companies relocating outside the EU and protect the region's 33 per cent hold on the world's fleet. The European Commission, the 15-nation bloc's
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    • 238 23 Reuters, AFP [SINGAPORE] Two major shipping casualties were reported last week with one seaman killed and another injured and at least eight people missing, presumed drowned. A Comoros-flagged cargo ship sank in stormy weather off Syria's coast, while a Chinese oil tanker
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    • 973 24  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes AS ever American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) president and CEO Robert Somerville gave a typically outspoken address at the First Annual Tanker Operator Conference in Piraeus, Greece. He opened with: "This is a very difficult and challenging time to
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      • 444 31 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        • 95 32 Reuters [ATHENS] Athens International Airport (AIA) started die winter season with an 11 per cent increase in scheduled weekly flights compared to last year, an indication the aviation industry is continuing to rebound. AIA, 40 per cent owned by German construction group Hochtief, said
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        • 167 32 Bloomberg [MOSCOW] OAO Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline, said executives are "inclined" to join Air France's Sky Team alliance as the carrier considers competing offers by the group and the Deutsche Lufthansa AG-led Star Alliance. "Management will meet in die near future to decide on the
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        • 138 32 Reuters [LAGOS] Nigeria will establish a new national airline by the end of the year following the liquidation of Nigeria Airways six months ago, state-owned newspaper the Daily Times said on Friday. The paper said the new carrier, to be named Nigerian Eagle Airlines,
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        • 113 32 Bloomberg [MUNICH] Fraport AG, the operator of Frankfurt Airport, said third-quarter passenger numbers at its six airports worldwide grew 3.4 per cent as Frankfurt-Hahn Airport benefited from expansion by Ryanair Holdings Pic, Europe's most valuable airline by market capitalisation. The number of travellers using Fraporfs
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      • 444 32  -  Region expected to account for one-fifth of Boeing's Asia-Pac sales over next 20 years By Ven Sreenivasan juuurccisi nsia, which bore the brunt of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, is seeing a strong pick-up in air traffic on the back of
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      • 410 32 Their future is promising despite recent setbacks AFP [CANNES, France] Regional airlines have a major role to play in the future of world aviation, even if there have been recent setbacks, notably in France, experts attending a conference in southern France agreed. They "have a
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      • 271 32 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways, Asia's second-biggest airline, returned to profit in the first half from a loss a year earlier after it cut costs and took a one-time pension gain. The company cut its annual sales and operating profit forecasts. Group net
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